UK Officials Said AI Would Add £400 Billion to the Economy. That Figure Mainly Came From Google
THE SO WHAT
The UK quietly cutting its AI impact estimate to less than a third of the headline £400B — and admitting the original number leaned heavily on a single vendor — shows how fragile top-down AI business cases are. Operators should discount government and vendor TAM slides and instead build ROI models from observed adoption and workflow change.
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